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hunter Hist. 
n. a hunter, usually an Indian, employed by a fur company to provide meat for a fort.
See also: fort hunter
- 1800 (1933) I sent 4 men for the four red Deer that are in our Hunters lodges, to whom I sent some Amunition &. to the Petit Corbau a Strip'd Blanket.
- 1929 We had . . . sixty-five regular servants, including boat-builders, carpenters and blacksmiths, and about fifty temporary servants--hunters, horse-keepers, meat-haulers and fishermen. They formed the regular staff for Edmonton.
- 1800 (1933) I sent 4 men for the four red Deer that are in our Hunters lodges, to whom I sent some Amunition &. to the Petit Corbau a Strip'd Blanket.